Its going to be a long one....

Headed down to the desert for the weekend, we happened to get our car back and thought we should make up for lost time.. We went down with William and Emily, the car was cram packed and of course we had to take Maya.. We ate like fat kids and walked the desert canyons.. We were on the hunt to see some ruins, turned out that we were in the wrong canyon the first day looking for ruins that didn't exist.. pretty funny right..? We totally redeemed ourselves when we figured out the next morning that we were totally off, Mule canyon ended up being awesome.. Its been a long crazy summer and this was the first time we had been down in the desert since,... ya know.. it felt good. The desert is a special place.. the colors are amazing and the cold nights refresh the spirit.. good times.. Plus we learned a lot about Will, jazz dancer?.. 

family photo..

Smart dog.. always stopping in the shade.


House on Fire...

What word are we spelling?

Derek came for a visit... Zoolander for the slow one..

Can you imagine living up there? Pretty intense right?..

Yes, we ate pancakes and bacon.. it was so dang delicious..

Maya was soo pooped, she just snuggled by the fire in her sleeping bag and feel asleep..

Wish you were there?.. yeah me too..

Awesome fire..., we chatted around the fire for hours.. it felt so good to be in the desert looking at the stars.

Being sensitive

My little lover and I

Got to love the self timer... We did not see a single soul the whole day..

love this one..

She was born to rage the desert... She ended up with two bloody paws.. hard core..

Boys must be boys huh?.. lookin white as ever..

sensitive video

My father linked this to me at work so I posted the link. Its pretty dang sensitive. check it out, click on the text.

http://www.bahaihub.com/videos/id_186/title_christian-the-lion/

Because I love her..

I never knew how much my little heart could love a furry little animal... Maya is so stinking cute it drives me crazy...She is just like a giant stuffed animal.. who could resist her sweet, sensitive self?..Every morning she comes and cuddles in-between Ty and I and rolls over so we will scratch her belly and give her loves..She is a little lover and is so sweet to the little guys that I nanny. I think she smells like brown sugar.. she is my little girlfriend..She is pretty much chillen the most..

Rwanda...

About a month ago Ty and I went to a play called the Overwhelming. It was done by the Salt Lake Acting Company and was pretty much one of the best plays I have ever been to. The play was based on the genocide that happened in Rwanda in 1994. The story was super emotional as one could imagine being based on such an awful happening. I had tears in my eyes as the play ended and the narrator said,"Don't worry, you will all go home and forget any of this ever happened, back to your normal lives." Well, that's pretty much what happened. Many times in our lives we see movies, hear happenings on the radio, watch the news and hear stories about people that have struggles and wonder in what ways can I help. Just the other day I was listening to NPR and the headlines were about the Tutsi militia attacking the refugee camps in Congo. We heard about Rwanda and the genocide, the conflict has not ended.
Margo and Travis (the couple I nanny for) have for many years been a part of Heifer International. This is a organization that helps families achieve self-reliance through the gift of livestock. The idea is to donate and buy some sort of livestock, (cow, goat, sheep, bees) which prices range from 10$-150$. Families all over the world are involved,on the web page, heifer.org under passing the gift, there is a story of a woman who had survived the genocide in Rwanda and received a cow from Heifer. She then used to milk to make an income and then gave her first calf to a neighbor, passing the gift.... Anyhow, long blog short... I think it would be rather awesome to donate to this organization and help those in need. I have been thinking of people in Rwanda and the harships that the people have had to deal with. We think our lives are bad,... think again.... Look into this web page and see for yourself what this organization has to offer.. Ty and I will be donating....

HALLOWEEN, ooh spooky, ooh spooky, ooh spooky, get it?

This years halloween was especially tiresome, it took a long time to work out team sends costumes, but once they were completed they were ultra extra radically heady and stuff. Lindsay was looking hot as usual and we partied until 4 o'clock in the morning, which is not a common occurance for team gecko. We started the night off checking out the youngster's costumes, then we went to the woodshed to see the Puddle Mountain Ramblers, shred the ymca bluegrass style.

this was the halloween coloration of the sunrise outside our house, which gave us a creepy prediction of the eventful evening.

This was the scene for most of the week during the evenings and a few mornings preceding the holiday, all in all it wasn't that bad to put together thanks to will's painting abilities, he's so great with those big arms of his, they are useful for something.

ha, you didn't really think that maya wouldn't make it on the blog did you, if you did, then you shouldn't have done what you did becuase that's not how team gecko rolls at all. She's a beautiful butterfly and stuff.

TEAM SEND RETURNS, LOOKING TOUGHER THAN EVER, not that they weren't incredibly, stupendously tough before, but until this time had never understood the importance of that which recedes the surface, oh the philosophical, physciological, and skeletalogical contemplation. mu ha ha ha ha mu ha ha ha ha mu ha ha ha ha, get it, mu ha ha ha


two skeletons, a magician/hypnotist/ladiesman/dude in a costume with a beard, and a sexy 70's dance DJ.

yeah I see you ladies, shaking that ... yeah shakin that ... ya'll know what i'm talkin about. yeah boy !


I don't care who you are, that's funny. Coleman looking hotter than ever

My wife is sssssoooooo sexy, yeah boy !

The fuzzy scene from the street side dance party after the show downtown, which coleman dominated in a fantastic fashion.

I had to put on another photo of the skeleton costumes, i'm pretty proud of myself for getting this together. I think some halloween soon there is going to be a whole crew of these skeletons, but ya'll have to wait and stuff.

sushi and warren

Saturday was such a super nice day, we began the day by sleeping in and eating pancakes for breakfast, my fav... Then we headed up Millcreek for a super chill hike, the temps were wonderful and little Maya was rallying as usual.. Then we headed to PC for some sushi with Emily and Will.... We got stopped by this wonderful, sexy looking moose and couldnt resist a snapshot...Main St. treated us pretty well, got some delicious sushi, fun shops and the most delicious chocolate slash carmel apple from Rocky Mtn. Chocolate! My husband was spoiling me....

Will and Emily chowing down..

The Nelsons lookin sly..

Dont ask what this is,,, I have no idea..

The bad slash good thing about going for sushi when you arent sure of what to order the second time around is asking the waiter... they like to recommend the most expensive dragon hupla something or another.. looks tasty right?

Hike up Millcreek, I love this weather!!!

After sushi we headed to the Warren Miller ski show, it was pretty cool, kinda long... but the best thing about it is that we got a free lift ticket to the Canyons and a free granola bar! yippee! I love free stuff..

27 in the house...

Okay so Im pretty much obsessed with my birthday, I was lucky enough to have a preparty on Thursday at Mazza... yum, yum.. that place is seriously so delicious! I have to say that I have such a good group of friends, I was very impressed... people showed up with flowers, plants, scarves, food, jewelry, music.. wow, I was one happy chica! All for me! I didnt even expect it! Then yesterday, Ash came down and we went to Thai Siam for lunch, I even got Ash to eat tofu! It was a pretty funny time with the babies.. I still have a lot to learn before I pop a litte one out..I got off work early, took a sweet nap in my new coat and had a delicious dinner with my husbee.. THen last nigh a few of us hung out over at Petes house.. we did sparklers, listened to some tunes,, ate chips with cheese\salsa and peanut butter m&ms (a few of my favs), oh boy we were rockin it..




Ty found a fun button on the camera

We had a hard time taking a group picture, we still havent figured out the right way to do the self timer..

Something was super smelly, we figured out that little Maya decided to roll in some poop outside, she ended up in the bath, so fun.. she hated it! Shes still mad at me..

sparkle party!

yes, my new cute puffy from my H & outlaws.. ahahah

Birthday cakes from Angela, thanks lady.. It wouldnt have been the same without the candles..

The girls before Mazza

THe Willus lookin cheerful

Pete and I, so in love... I have to say that birthdays are pretty awesome, I love the fact that people you havent talked to in a long while, email, call, text, send cards just to let you know they are thinking about you. I LOVE IT, THanks ya'll for making my birthday fabulous!

in case you were wondering...

Ty and I rock..

Maya and Ty are BOTH super sensitive

My bike totally rules...it makes me happy every day

The fall time in Utah is spectacular!

Views up Millcreek right now should be on my wall

Will and Ty are BoTH OFF Team Send

Dont you wish you were here?

And,... it my birthday in two days...

1 yr. ago....

So I cant help but think about what the three of us were doing 1 year ago. Mainly because we were totally awesome. I think the most miles that Dave and Eric had ran before the marathon was 7 miles.. maybe... so to finish the marathon in a descent time was pretty cool. Here we are post race lookin worked.. This year we entered but got denied, I guess we will try again next year, so get your running shoes out fam because we are all doing it in o9'!


oh the pain...